From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17173 invoked by alias); 14 Dec 2003 08:25:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17162 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2003 08:25:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maynard.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.243) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 14 Dec 2003 08:25:08 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by maynard.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AVRYm-0005Vf-00; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 03:25:04 -0500 Received: by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix, from userid 502) id B536B4B412; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 03:25:30 -0500 (EST) To: eliz@elta.co.il Subject: Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses Cc: cagney@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <20031214082530.B536B4B412@berman.michael-chastain.com> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 08:25:00 -0000 From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00197.txt.bz2 Hi Eli, > There's something I'm probably missing here: who is responsible for > ``submitting test results'' for a platform? Anybody who wants gdb HEAD to keep working on that platform. That's usually the maintainer, but someone doesn't have to take on the whole job of maintaining a platform to submit test results for it. > To make this more concrete, I don't think I (or anyone else) have ever > sent test results for the DJGPP (a.k.a. go32) target, for which I > alone am responsible. Does that mean you will promote starting to > deprecate it VSN? Yes, but not "VSN" because I am up to my neck in other bugs. And then you will come back and say "go32 does not support running the test suite". And then I will say: okay, fine, can you build gdb on go32? Can you do "break main"? Can you do a backtrace? Can you print registers? Can you print a local variable? Can you set a watchpoint? Can you call a function with a double precision argument? Can you put all that in a script and post the results to gdb-testers once a month? If nobody does those things for a platform, then I want to obsolete the platform. If anybody is actually using the platform then they can either stay with their current gdb forever, or they can find someone to help out with the QA process on gdb HEAD for that platform. Michael C